This is partly because Intel would love to have a wireless technology that’s not controlled by the cell carriers, and is independent from the handset market, which hasn’t embraced Intel chips. As the world goes mobile, Intel needs to have its chips inside the devices people are carrying, rather than the ARM-based chips favored by the handset makers. Getting a few Intel-based netbooks into the carriers’ stores is good, but Intel would experience greater benefits by pushing WiMAX as an open system that’s available now. That’s the primary reason it has invested in Japan’s UQ Communications, a provider of mobile WiMAX. UQ will use the funding to continue expanding service in Japan. The company is aiming to provide WiMAX coverage to 90 percent of the country by 2012.